常用后缀大约有96个，大致可分为五类。
1、名词后缀(1) 构成表示人的名词后缀a. 动词＋er表示人：traveller, hunter, reader, worker, keeper, driver, listener, discoverer, reporter, owner, speaker, weaver, winner, buyer, leader, runner, swimmer, ruler, viewerb. 名词＋er表示人或物：villager, prisoner, geographer, farmer, lawyer, cookerc. 形容词＋er表示人：foreigner, stranger, southernerd. 动词＋or表示人：actor, director, inventor, operator, governor, professor, conductor, visitor, sailore. 名词＋eer表示人：engineer, volunteer, mountaineer, pioneerf. 名词（动词）＋ress表示女性：actress, waitress, authouress, millionaires, tailoress, tigeressg. 名词＋cian：mathematician, physician, politician, musicianh. 名词＋ese：Chinese, Japanese, Portugese, Taiwanese, Cantanesei. 名词＋an：American, Australian, Austrian, Canadian, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Russianj. 名词（或－al结尾的形容词）＋ist：artist, communist, novelist, physicist, violinist, pianist, naturalist, socialist, scientist, typist(2) 构成抽象名词与集合名词的后缀a. 动词＋age：package, marriage, carriage, postage, storage, luggage, baggage, percentageb. 动词＋ure：failure, pleasure, pressure, mixture, fixturec. 形容词＋ity：majority, electricity, activity, equality, possiblility, ablilityd. 动词＋ment：argument, judgement, achievement, astonishement, development, excitement, encouragement, movement, government, punishment, treatment, statement, department, enrichmente. 动词＋ion/sion/ation/action/cation/ition：education, graduation, translation, separation, operation, celebration, congratulation, action, invention, attraction, connection, election, collection, devotion, pollution, decision, division, attention, description, production, redution, revision, permission, examination, explanation, consideration, invitation, imagination, pronunciation, satisfaction, addition, repetition, competitionf. 名词／形容词／动词＋ery/ry：bravery, discovery, machinery, slavery, chemistryg. 形容词／动词＋y：difficulty, honesty, safety, activity, injury, unity, discoveryh. 动词＋al：arrival, survival, burial, proposal, disapproval, refusali. 名词／形容词＋ship：friendship, leadership, hardship, citizenship, comradeship, professorship, warship, memberhipj. 名词＋hood：boyhood, girlhood, childhood, neighbourhood, manhoodk. 动词＋ance/ence：appearance, entrance, guidance, difference, referencel.. 形容词／动词＋th：truth, length, youth, strength, depth, wealth, warmth, width, growthm. 形容词／名词＋dom：wisdom, freedom, kingdomn. 形容词／名词＋ism：communism, socialism, Marxism, imperialismo. 动词＋ing：building, feeling, dancing, meetingp. 形容词＋ness：kindness, illness, sickness, brightness, selfness, correctness, happiness, darkness, weakness, carelessness2、形容词后缀(1) 名词／动词＋able/ible：valuable, reasonable, comfortable, countable, enjoyable, horrible, terrible, responsible(2) 名词＋al/ia/ual：cultural, agricultural, natural, physical, musical, practical, national, technical, industrial, material, actual(3) 名词＋ic/ical：electric, basic, electric, atomic, plastic, magic, scientific, electrical, historical, medical, chemical, physical(4) 名词＋ish：foolish, childish, womanish, Spanish, British, English(5) 名词／动词＋ful：careful, powerful., tearful, beautiful, hopeful, wonderful, fearful, thankful, harmful, useful, frightful(6) 名词／动词＋less：careless, hopeless, useless, harmless, homeless, wireless, endless, selfless, powerless, fearless, valueless(7) 名词＋ar：regular, particular,(8) 名词＋ary：revolutionary, extraordinary, contrary(9) 名词／形容词＋ly：friendly, motherly, brotherly, monthly, weakly, wooly, lovely, lively, lonely(10) 名词＋en：wooden, woolen, golden,(11) 名词＋ern：eastern, western, northern, southern(12) 名词＋y：cloudly, sunny, shiny, windy, rainy, snowy, lucky, salty, hilly, funny, healthy, sleepy, foggy, dusty, lucky, muddy, wealthy, noisy, easy, dirty, thirsty, angry, hungry, smoky, sandy (13) 名词＋ous/ious：dangerous, famous, nervous, poisonous, serious, curious, various, mountainous, homourous(14) 名词／动词＋some：handsome, troublesome, tiresome(15) 动词＋ant：pleasant, excellent(16) 动词＋ive(atove)：active, expensive, talkactive, comparative, relative(17) 动词＋ed：excited, learned, tired, interested, surprised, pleased(18) 动词＋ing：interesting, moving, exciting, tiring, surprising3、副词后缀(1) 形容词＋ly：badly, nearly, mostly, quickly, roughtly, quietly, sliently, sadly, slowly, commonly, softly, frequently, rapidly, deeply, slightly, lightly, fairly, smartly, certainly, excitedly, curiously, firmly, sliently, constantly, seriously, particularly, coldly, suddenly, freely, highly, lately, finely, politely, completely, widely, immediately, unfortunately, surely, closely, truly, wholly, probably, simply, possibly, impossibly, getly, terribly, easily, busily, happily, heavily, angrily, prettily, hungrily, shyly, dryly, carefully, finally, usually, actually, really, naturally, beautifully, dully, fully, scientifically, phsically(2) 名词／介词＋ward/wards：northward, southward, eastward, westeward, downward, upward, backward, forward, toward, afterwards4、动词后缀(1) 形容词／名词＋en：deepen, broaden, widen, darken, weaken, sharpen, blacken, redden, whiten, tighten, stengthen, lengthen, heighten(2) 形容词／名词＋fy：beautify, satisfy, electrify, purify, terrify(3) 名词／形容词＋ize/ise：realize, modernize(4) －ate／由外来词构成：libreate, educate, operate, translate, graduate, separate, celebrate, congratulate(5) －ish／由外来词构成：finish, publish, astonish(6) 形容词＋en：enable, enlarge, enrich5、数词后缀(1) 基数词＋teen：thirteen, fourteenk fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen(2) 基数词＋ty：twenty, thirty, forty, fifty(3) 基数词＋th：fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth。